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Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com
IG/Twitter: @RyanHawk12
Notes:
- Sustaining Excellence =
- Learn constantly
- Experiment constantly
- Obsessive about learning the details, not a cookie cutter approach
- Rapid Skill Acquisition:
- Must be specific
- Break it down: don't try to do it all at once
- Do research
- Practice
- Deconstruct the skill to its smallest parts
- Make a pre-commitment - "I'm going to practice this skill for 20 hours no matter what."
- Create fast feedback loops for yourself:
- Keep a daily log of what you do... Meetings, interactions, what was discussed, how you feel, etc.
- This helps reinforce the importance of paying attention to the small details of what you're trying to learn
- If something happens, you can review your notes later
- Josh has always had "a desire to understand the world around me"
- Teaching is one of the greatest tools in the world for learning
- "Management is the act of coordinating a group of people to achieve a goal. Management is not business. Management is not leadership. Management is a supporting function, not a decision making function."
- "Leadership = define the goal, account for change."
- "Good management =
- Recruiting - must get good people
- Communicating well between teams and decision making parts of the business
- Must create environment of psychological safety
- Create a productive working environment
- Planning - Estimating time lines and schedules
- Measurement
- Commander's Intent - "When you are a leader, decision making authority, the least effective thing is for you to make all the ground level decisions." Push decision making power to the people closest to the action.
- More quotes from Josh's work:
- “You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.”
- “Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.
- “If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.”
- “The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.”
- “Every time your customers purchase from you, they’re deciding that they value what you have to offer more than they value anything else their money could buy at that moment.”
- “The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn’t replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough.”
- "Be positive, force yourself to smile."
- “Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.”
- “Ideas are cheap—what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.”
- “Fear of the unknown will always be with you, no matter what you do. That’s comforting in a way: if there’s nothing you can do to change it, there’s no reason to let it stop you.”
